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February 22, 2005

Afternoon update

There's lots of news today. The Star tomorrow will include a large package of continuing storm coverage, including some more outstanding photos. All those local stories and photos, plus a wire story on what's happening storm-wise in the rest of Southern California, was too much to fit into the scheduled size of the paper. So we bumped it up by two pages to handle the news.

The coverage will include:
A main weather story by Zeke Barlow (zbarlow@VenturaCountyStar.com). It will include a roundup of the latest storm news plus the forecast.
Kathleen Wilson (kwilson@VenturaCountyStar.com) will cover the story of the damage to the Santa Paula Airport. We have a number of compellng photos of what happened at the airport by Gary Phelps, James Glover and Dave Gertzschman.
County officials don't know how much damage the latest storm has done to the county's crops, reports Jim McLain (jmclain@VenturaCountyStar.com) because it's too wet to get into the fields yet to assess the damage. But they know it will hurt, particularly coming on top of the $52 million storm damage in January.
Dani Dodge (ddodge@VenturaCountyStar.com) will follow on the water pouring over the dams in the county, increasing the water flow in the rivers and streams.
And John Scheibe (jscheibe@VenturaCountyStar.com) will answer these questions you have: how much did it rain and is this the rainiest year ever in Ventura County? Here's a sneak peek at the answer: it depends.

Also on Page One tomorrow will be continuing coverage of President Bush's European trip, advancing his arrival in Russia. The fifth story will be out of Washington, on the U.S. Supreme Court decision to hear arguments on the legality of Oregon's assisted suicide law.


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